Robot brickies a step closer to working on sites

A robotics startup has secured £20m in funding to scale-up the number of brick-laying machines it can deploy on sites across Europe and increase the types of blocks and construction tasks the robots can manage.
The UK is a core target market for Dutch based firm Monumental which completed its first large-scale 15-metre facade for an office and warehouse building last year.
Contractors can hire Monumental as a subcontractor to bring in its robots to work as bricklayers autonomously across t